Morning journal and courier., 1887-09-02
THE COsIEST AND BRIGHTEST.

Manager Walls New Haven Opera
 House to be Formally opened To.
 Night After Having Undergone Elab-
 crate ImproVements-The Interior
 by yGasl1ght-East Rock Park and the
 Soldiers Monument Dedicated on
 the New Drop Curtain.
 Manager Horace Wall of the New Haven Opera House will be happy man tonight for at 9:30 this evening the curtain of the New Haven Opera House will be rung up and the theatrical season of 1887-88 for New Ha- ven will be formally opened with Fife Ellsler holding the boards.
 A few of the genial and affable managers friends were treated last evening to look in advance of the beautiful, homelike and cosy interior of this popular theater. What a wonderful change it has undergone since last season! Much money and no end of labor, the best of workmanship and manage rial ability have been 1avishly laid out.
 The coloring of the entire interior has been changed and the dark tints of old have given place to brighter and softer ones. The im- provements are apparent on every hand and extend from one end of the pretty, compact house to the other. Allen Drew has had charge of the auditorium Improvements. He is a master hand. for a more beautiful blend- ing of colors is hardly imaginable. The walls are papered with 8 delicate shade of olive, with gold figures, and the colors blend most harmoniously with the elaborate fresco work on the ceiling, which is now brought out to perfection. The prosecnium arch is done in umber tints and the artistic scroll work on the boxes has been brought out in variegated colors. The various metallic figures distribu- tad ah boxes have been beautifed by the addition of new curtains and brass bars.
 By gaslight the interior looked very soft, pretty and blooming to the eye. At 8:30 the green baise curtain was rung up and one of
 the most beautiful drop curtains imaginable justly proud of it. It is perhaps one of the l handsomest pieces of scenic work that has ever been done in New England outside of Boston. The Elm City playgoers will be | more than pleased when they see this latest ! work of tine scene painters art. On the ! back by tasseled cord showing the lighter | interior. In the midst of mass of delicate | ly painted drapery there is space filled in | by beautiful and correct impersonation of | East Book with faithful portrayal of the sol diers' monument. A section of placid Mill river is shown with yawl boat moored to the bank. On the stern is the | Mayor York. The scenic work was done by
 George W. Dayton of the Union Square The | ater' New York. Both curtains are now
 raised and lowered on wires and the rolling
 up and consequent crumpling of the drop curtain is done away with. This all cost money, but Manager Wall has not spared l this much prized article in his endeavors to please the public. They in turn should ap- preciate his commendable endeavors to please them The stage accommodations have been
 greatly increased. A new property room has
 been built 36x15 feet and the stage is now
 6Ox7O feet, sufficiently large to accommodate | the heaviest performances. There is nc doubt but that Manager Wall now possesses the brightest and prettiest theater in Con necticuE In the remodeling MT. Wall has | shown most excellent taste and he can now
 rest and gather the laurels of praises and con- gratulations which will be showered upon | him. 5e